Provenzano, Muratore win Plymouth selectman seats

Familiar faces will be returning to Plymouth’s school committee and board of selectmen, with a newcomer joining the latter as well. Anthony Provenzano Jr. and incumbent Mathew Muratore won the selectman race. Incumbent Debra Betz and James Sorensen, who led the school board through much of the 1980s and 1990s, were victorious in the school committee race.

By Eryn Carlson

The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, MA

By Eryn Carlson

Posted May. 12, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated May 12, 2013 at 12:19 PM

By Eryn Carlson

Posted May. 12, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated May 12, 2013 at 12:19 PM

PLYMOUTH

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Familiar faces will be returning to the school committee and the board of selectmen, with a newcomer joining the latter as well.

Anthony Provenzano Jr. was the top vote-getter among the five selectman candidates in the annual town election Saturday. The second of the two available selectman seats went to incumbent Mathew Muratore, the board’s current chairman.

Provenzano received 2,167 votes, while Muratore got 2,028.

They bested Douglas O’Roak, Richard Quintal Jr. and Robert Bielen.

In the only other race on the ballot, voters elected two former chairmen to the school committee.

Incumbent Debra Betz and James Sorensen, who led the school board through much of the 1980s and 1990s, defeated Jay Ferguson, Kenneth Moriarty and Robert Morgan, a former vice chairman of the committee.

Betz, who was the committee’s chairman in 2010, received 1,939 votes, while Sorensen received 1,775.

The winners of the selectman and school committee races won three-year terms.

Three unopposed incumbents were re-elected: Steven Triffletti to a three-year term as moderator, William Wennerberg III to a five-year term on the planning board, and Chester Bagni, to a five-year term on the redevelopment authority.

Voters also elected town meeting representatives for all 15 precincts.

In many of the precincts, there were fewer than three candidates to fill the three-year term positions.